Button



vor rear shell of ivory or plastic material.

of a clothcovered button.

' tral shank-hole, leaving the flange of said eye- UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

NELSON C. NEWELL, OF SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

BUTTON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 273,132, dated February 27, 1883.

Application filed November 15, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it 'may concern Be it known that I, NELSON C. NEWELL, a citizen ofthe United States, residingat Springeld, in the county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvementsin Buttons, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in the construction of buttons. composed of a cloth face and a back of hard material-such as hard rubber, plastic material other than the latter, and vegetable ivoryand is in the nature of an improvement upon my patent of July 23, 1878, No. 206,348, the object b ing to provide improved fastening devices for uniting said face and back, whereby the danger of breaking the parts in the course of manufacture and ofthe cracking and serious injury to the buttons after they are finished by shrinkage of said backs are obviated.

In the drawings forming part of this specification, Figure IIIis a plan view ofthe shank side of a button embodying my invention. Fig. II is a section on the line a: a', Fig. III. Fig. I is a section of the back of the button. Fig. IV is aplan view, and Fig. Vaside elevation, of theuniting-eyelet of the button.

In the drawings, d is the back ofthe button e is the border thereof. b is the clothcovered button, having the usual sewing-shank, m. findicates the usual metallic collet on the back It is an eyelet, provided with one or more slots, c.

The cloth-covered button b is made substantially like an ordinary button of this kind, eX- l cepting that before the collet fis crimped onto the back the eyelet It is put through its cenlet inside of said collet and between the latter and the button proper, when the collet is secured to the latter, as shown in Fig. II, and the cloth shank in ofthe button is within said eyelet. Theabove-named parts are, as just described, made ready for the application of the back d.'

Heretofore the eyelet h has been made having the Vusual flange and a cylindrical body having continuous or unbroken sides; but I have found in practice that it is essential that said eyelet should be otherwise made, so that it will, when embodied in the nished button,

possess compressible, elastic qualities in a direction 'across its diameter, and therefore I provide in the cylindrical part of said eyelet one or more slots, c, extending from one end toward its anged end, as shown in the drawings. Theaforesaidcompressible elasticqualities in said eyelet are required in a button having' a back of plastic material or of vegetable ivory, owing to the liability of said backs to be broken in process of manufacture when an ordinary unbroken eyelet is forced against said back hard enough to turn a flange outside of the latter, whereby it is secured to the cloth button I), as shown in Fig. II, and, furthermore, an eyelet that will remain elastic after having been forced into said lianged shape in a finished button is quite as essential to the permanency ofthe button construction, owing to the fact thatthe above-named materials from which the backs d are made are liable to considenable shrinkage, and when secured in the common way upon a rigid eyelet they become, by reason thereof, broken and ruined, whereas when an elasticeyelet is used no such breakage occurs.

The aforesaid parts b and It having been prepared, as described, for uniting them to the back d, the latter is placed upon the back of 8o the cloth button b, the shank m and the slot` ted cylindrical part of the eyelet projecting through it, and the edge ofthe latter is forced outwardly and against said back, formingfa divided flange, as shown in Fig. III, whereby said parts are secured together.

What fI claim as my invention is- In a compound button consisting ot' a cloth face and of a back of other material, substantially as described, a unitingeyelet having one or more slots in its body, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

NELSON C. N EWELL.

Witnesses:

B. F. HYDE, H. A. GHAPIN. 

